Archive for January, 2009
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009Baseball-Reference tracks high leverage hitting splits. The high leverage concept is based on work by Tom Tango, which is described here. Baseball-Reference suggests that high leverage plays account for about 20% of all plays.
Overall in 2008, Phillies hitters got 6,273 plate appearances in which they hit 255/332/438. Of those, 1,230 plate appearances […]
Who’s up?
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009As a team in 2008 the Phillies got 6,273 plate appearances. Of those, 3,170, about 50.5%, came with the score of the game within one run. As a team they also got 780 of their plate appearances, 12.4%, when the margin of the game was more than four runs.
Not all of the players […]
Then again, maybe it is how you start
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009The Phillies started different players at third base and catcher regularly in 2008. Here is a look at the team’s record in games where they started Feliz or Dobbs at third, remembering that the Phillies went 92-70 overall, which is a .568 winning percentage:
Player
GS at 3b
W-L
PCT
Pedro Feliz
106
63-43
.594
Greg Dobbs
42
21-21
.500
Eric Bruntlett started […]
Better halves
Monday, January 26th, 2009Looking back to last week’s post about the areas where the Phillies improved their pitching last season compared to 2007, one of the areas of improvement is what they did as a group before the All-Star break.
This does not come at as a big shock considering that, in 2007, the Phillies were simply miserable before […]
Home improvement
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009I wrote recently that while the Phillies were very good at both producing and preventing runs in 2008, when you compare what they did overall last season to the past few years, the change in the number of runs they allowed last year was much more dramatic than the change in the number of runs […]
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